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If there's any doubt the practice of hydraulic fracturing needs to be stopped, read this link.

"Amy Paré, MD, she initially was unsure what to make of the bleeding, oozing legions covering their faces.

The wounds were not cancerous, but the inflammation was severe and becoming worse. Dr. Paré’s suspicions grew when she learned that the patients lived near the same natural gas drilling site. Tests later found that the patients had phenol and hippuric acid in their urine, two contact irritants rarely found in humans. The patients improved after they stopped drinking water from their underground wells.

“Knowing what chemicals they had been exposed to would have sped up the process” of treating the patients, said Dr. Paré, who specializes in treating skin conditions."

Good idea. How about all the dangerous no longer used drilling platforms in the Gulf and elsewhere?

To refine my argument above, of course reasoned argument is needed to gather others to our side. However the other side negotiates only as a ruse. For them I argue we need to draw a line in the sand and get down to the fight.

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It is so good to see reports of the people getting together with the local officials to protest. It is an awesome thing to see the global protests on fracking. People are waking-up are becoming aware - and are acting.

I guess that is why we need to drag it back out into the light. On a regular basis. Standard operational procedure - in fighting against the crap slingers - the distracters - the shills that would see this forum inactive.

The oil explorers pay ranchers ( most of whom owned their land since before WW1) $300 an acre just for the priviledge of thinking about looking for oil. Then if oil is found, the rancher gets a nice fat royalty for every barrel.

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Ignorance and blind hatred can lead to disastrous things. The facts in the video weren't falsified like they said drilling does have risk science has risk science will prevail no matter what

And yet you refuse to comment on the environmental engineer

Im not defending fracking i agree that we must get off an oil fuel economy i am merely pointing out that fracking is not dangerous nor will it ever be. this is a useless argument. Oil will be used by man kind until we die because oil is used in every machined part, most clothes, furniture, storage, toys, personal hygiene products, cosmetics, drugs, and buildings.

Considering this is less destructive than your thinking and there is a lack of scientific evidence to support any claim that caused these methane leaks im talking about fracking itself not the pipping.

The pipping on multiple fracking units have failed and that is an issue

no im not defending fracking i dont really think we should be looking into oil as our fuel.

What im saying as a neutral party to this is that fracking the actual physical pumping 99 water .5% sand .5% chemicals into the land are not harmful to water supplies.

Like i said before the pipping is the issue. unsafe pipping of the extracted oil and methane is the problem. There have been several issues with pipelines bursting in these reservoirs and i have an issue with unsafe practices of pipping

Are you understanding the part about drilling down through the water tabel to get to the shale to be fracked - the jacket they pour is cement - the cement jacket has a history of failing. The fracking is done under high pressure. Hundreds of wells drilled through the water table - then pressurized. This does not even get into the gas that escapes even after a well has been capped.

And this is what is available now. With advanced material science such as Microscopy (arrangement of the composition and structure of a material) the sky is the limit if we could get big oil and their like to quit discouraging investments in alternate energy.
We have been coasting on the investments made back when people used to dream about exploring our solar system and universe. Back then when people talked about going to mars and mining the astroid belt it was seen as something we could advance enough to do. Now we've made that promise made to us as a nation a joke. I highly recommend everyone check out neil degrasse tyson the astrophysicist about the seen and unseen benefits of a robust space program. To paraphrase neil "a civilization is either exploring their boundries or returning to the cave". To me it looks like we're headed for the hills.

I agree we need to take care of our planet. I believe a strong space presence would help with that goal. Right now we spend .5 cents to the tax dollar on nasa. If that was raised to 1-2 cents on the dollar we would see a growth of innovation not seen since the 60's. Plus anyone I know interested in space is also more concerned about the enviroment then the average person.

And if we advance enough in tech we have enough resources in the solar system that we can tap. Some of the astroids in the belt have more heavy metals then man has mined in our history. The plus to that is we can supply our resource needs without ruining the planet.

Yes new technologies are developed for space endeavors - many excellent technologies have come from our past explorations into space.

Thing is - we need to use our advancements here on earth in a major way - to end fossil fuel use for 1 and with that end the fossil fuel strife. Make our energy use clean and inexpensive for the world.

By eliminating conflicts - sources of conflicts we enrich the whole planet and free up an unbelievable amount of money and resources that can be used to "start" our space works programs - as it should be made self sustaining by space operations ASAP.

Thorium reactors - Yep - and the use of liquid metal batteries as storage and delivery hubs throughout the system as these could be used to keep demand spikes from stressing the system - they are also useful for taking input from wind turbines ( which can fluctuate a lot ) and give their input into the system a smooth interface. Liquid metal batteries could make a dent in system power/energy waste.

With the fracking that has been done so far just in North Dakota alone - there are going to be huge water issues as well as ground and air pollution issues as a result. Ground water issues that can not be repaired - only addressed in some sort of cleaning process for every drop of water to be used for support of life. This is happening all over the USA and we will have the same issues all over the USA.

Get your water at the store - processed to be safe to drink ( we think ) enjoy!!!

Toxic water? Can't bathe or shower? Not a problem - buy our new body wash wipes - now with lanoline and aloe vera.

Oily dirty disgusting hair because you can no longer wash it? Not a problem we have a whole new line of gentle depilatory products - you can find them in your local store next to the body wash wipes and the scalp wax for that gleaming cranium look that is becoming so popular with the young crowd. ( we are almost certain that all of these fine products will have no toxic side effects).

Be careful not to cause a spark which might set your land river or lake on fire. Dropping water on those fires just seems to spread them. Outdoor barbequing has been banned as it is too risky - your neighborhood and surrounding civilization could go up in smoke.

That is not something that I have been able to find anywhere - and it should be a common item - unless of course you are into fracking and would not like that easy graphic to be available for public viewing.

The best I could do at the moment was find those two separate links. You can get a look at the state and how the aquifers run - then go the the other link and look at the layout of activity in the state.

Been a long long time since I have done any work in a Darkroom. Though I suppose now - that if you could do a double exposure that you could then take a digital picture of that and up load it to your PC.

There is no such thing as a guarantee laws of physics tell us that but to think that this jelly is going to worm up into the water from over 10,000ft below is silly. To think fracking is the single cause of these build ups isnt practicle.

After talking to a well known Environmental Engineer and and advocate of clean energy. He explained to me the personally how fracking isnt an issue and that methane builds up have been happening since the begin of well based water supplies.

There is method in their madness. Once the water tables are ruined, we will have to buy water. The markup on bottled water is so much higher than any other product, that the corporocriminals can't wait to have that market cornered.

You do know that Libya was invaded for it's vast water resources? Google the Nubian Aquifer.

Appears we have instincts. phylogenetic DNA in us that are not human, reptilian and insectoid. They can control behaviors. Through history we think the human one dominates, but that may not be so considering the illogical, unreasonable behaviors exhibted by human more recently. And, it seems time doesn't matter in the way it does in our daily lives, different scale. Much longer between thresholds. Hard for us to be aware of these things while our history is being yanked and re written every so often.
Yes, we been made to think it is for profit because it is quasi logical socially, but then again, how can anyone profit from sheparding the destruction of the ecosphere?
Again, the time scale is an issue which might be a disadvantage when it comes to our more human DNA controlling our evolution or even recognizing how certain behaviroe DO NOT encourage evolution.

The word "profit" is a generalization which refers to excess material power. Such power is useful for seeking gratifications that are much prized. The psychological basis for gratifications is instinctual.

What if the origins of instincts like those regulating sex and memory were partially located in the genetic realm of insects, but yet had huge influence on the human unconscious in decision making and or memory?

Absolutely, and mass media created them by stimulating specific epigenetic changes in cell production of their brains that exagerates the psychopathy and the "profit".
A large part of our populations have suffered some similar effect, and so still practice funneling money, thinking they have no options, to the psychopaths.

Atmosphere and oceans are mixing masses, aquifers are static by comparison. They're proving that the people are helpless to protect themselves and that could backfire. As long as its ambigous, they might get away with it, but this is not ambigous. It will cause immense resistence once the media non feasance/malfeasance/neglect is overcome, if it can be.

The EPA can now "suggest". that fracking "might" be a drinking water issue.

"What do the latest results suggest?
The USGS provided only the raw data and no interpretation. A spokeswoman for the EPA has said that the results are consistent with the agency's findings, and an analysis by environmental groups released this week confirmed that. A scientist who has investigated possible contamination at other sites, Rob Jackson of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, says that multiple lines of evidence are certainly “suggestive” of fracking as a source of contamination."

People - if you are in an area that has fracking going on U may want to test your water on a regular basis - OH - and if you have a habit of smoking in the bathroom - U may want to rethink that practice.

Surface pollution take decenias to seriously pollute ground water, it is already a problem in a few countries and the situation won't get better.

Industrialists know that, and if they do and persist fracking and exploiting bitumen sands, then they have no good consciousness, except for themselves, friend and family, but nothing new there. If they can't act with consciousness, if governments can't or don't want to stop them, If peaceful protests have no effect, then what is the solution? And this is only a fraction of all the troubles, you think there are enough protesters and petitions to stop all those insanities?

Maybe everybody will become sensible at the end of this year, they say we'll enter a new epoch, poof! magic, everybody making sense, but that's not my opinion, I think the solution is to use this reality to create another one, but people are not even at the step of considering that as a possibility.

Isn't that a kind of censorship too? Why can't I photograph something I can see with my eyes? aren't eyes associated to a brain a kind of photographic device? Someday we'll have to walk with a chip that will close our eyes as we walk so we don't see things...

IT ( FRACKING ) IS TOTALLY INSANE. It ( the process ) is gonna fail at start-up - during processing - and after being capped - it is a totally poisonous thing - start to finish - and it is never finished as there is no way to repair the ground damage and the subsequent follow-up ground poisoning.